Study and Reference material for Medical Laboratory Sciences
Category: White Blood Cells
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View and understand the differences between a blast cell and an activated lymph, including differences in cytoplasm and nucleus.
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Practice a 100 white cell differential on a slide with increased band neutrophils.
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Practice a 100 white cell count on a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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Practice a 100 white cell differential on a slide with a left shift.
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A Complete Blood Count with Differential is performed on the DXH 900 for a patient with severe sepsis & intravascular hemolysis. Due to the high percentage of neutrophils detected, a manual slide review is performed. Increased band neutrophils are seen, indicating a left shift. A manual differential is performed with the following results: 46% segmented…